RLGN 105 FINAL EXAM (MATTHEWS) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
Question 1 that defines worldview - Answers The question of Origin
Question 2 that defines worldview - Answers The question of identity
Question 3 that defines worldview - Answers The question of Meaning (purpose)
Question 4 that defines worldview - Answers The question of morality
Question that defines worldview - Answers The question of Destiny
The basis of a Biblical worldview - Answers 1. God exists.
2. God has revealed Himself to mankind.
3. Jesus Christ is God's Son who is the redeemer of the world.
4. The Bible is God's Word
5. Christians are to follow the teachings of the bible.
Stronger Brother - Answers One who participates in an ethical gray area in full assurance of his
conscience because
of his understanding of Christian freedom.
Weaker Brother - Answers One who does not participate in an ethical gray area because of the
sensitivity of his conscience: his participation would be a sin to him
stumbling block - Answers An action taken by a stronger brother which, though it would
ordinarily qualify as a permissible act of freedom, influences a weaker brother to sin against his
conscience.
Principles of expedience - Answers Will it be spiritually profitable? I Cor. 6:12
Principle of edification - Answers Will it build me up? 1 Cor. 10:23
Principles of excess - Answers Will it slow me down in the race? Heb 12:1
Principle of enslavement - Answers Will it bring me into bondage? I Cor. 6:12
Principle of Equivocation - Answers Will it hypocritically cover my sin? I Peter 2:16
Principle of Encroachment - Answers Will it violate the Lordship of Christ in my life? Rom. 14:1-8
Principle of Example - Answers Will it help other Christians by its example? I Cor. 8:9
Principle of Evangelism - Answers Will it lead others to Christ?
, 1 Cor. 10:27-29
Principle of Emulation - Answers Would Jesus do it? 1 John 2:6
Principle of EXHALTATION - Answers Will it glorify God? 1 Cor. 10:31
Traditional Tolerance - Answers Tolerance is a word that applies to how we treat people we
disagree with, not how we treat ideas we think false.
New Tolerance - Answers It is based on the belief that "truth is relative to the community in
which a person participates. And since there are many human communities, there are
necessarily many different truths."
"Since truth is described by language, and all language is created by humans, all truth is created
by humans."
If all truth is created by humans, and all humans are "created equal," then all truth is equal.
Griswald vs. Connecticut - Answers Main ruling: Overturned a law which made counseling of
married persons in the use of contraception a crime.
Eisenstadt v. Baird - Answers Main Ruling: The law (Massachusetts) prohibiting singles from
receiving counseling or contraceptives from anyone other than a doctor/pharmacist in was
overturned
Roe v. Wade - Answers Main ruling - Lifted bans on abortion in all 50 states A woman's "right to
privacy" extends to her liberty to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
Doe v. Bolton - Answers Main Ruling - Expanded definition of "health" of the mother to include
familial, financial, psychological, well-being, etc. as determined by her physician.
Planned Parenthood v Casey - 1992 - Answers Main ruling - Discarded 3 trimester of Roe and
focused on the "viability" of the fetus as the determining point where a state's interest in unborn
life begins.
Partial Birth Abortion Act - 2003 - Answers WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush signed the
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3) into law on November 5, 2003, The bill represents the first
direct national restriction on any method of abortion since the Supreme Court legalized abortion
on demand in 1973.
Question 1 that defines worldview - Answers The question of Origin
Question 2 that defines worldview - Answers The question of identity
Question 3 that defines worldview - Answers The question of Meaning (purpose)
Question 4 that defines worldview - Answers The question of morality
Question that defines worldview - Answers The question of Destiny
The basis of a Biblical worldview - Answers 1. God exists.
2. God has revealed Himself to mankind.
3. Jesus Christ is God's Son who is the redeemer of the world.
4. The Bible is God's Word
5. Christians are to follow the teachings of the bible.
Stronger Brother - Answers One who participates in an ethical gray area in full assurance of his
conscience because
of his understanding of Christian freedom.
Weaker Brother - Answers One who does not participate in an ethical gray area because of the
sensitivity of his conscience: his participation would be a sin to him
stumbling block - Answers An action taken by a stronger brother which, though it would
ordinarily qualify as a permissible act of freedom, influences a weaker brother to sin against his
conscience.
Principles of expedience - Answers Will it be spiritually profitable? I Cor. 6:12
Principle of edification - Answers Will it build me up? 1 Cor. 10:23
Principles of excess - Answers Will it slow me down in the race? Heb 12:1
Principle of enslavement - Answers Will it bring me into bondage? I Cor. 6:12
Principle of Equivocation - Answers Will it hypocritically cover my sin? I Peter 2:16
Principle of Encroachment - Answers Will it violate the Lordship of Christ in my life? Rom. 14:1-8
Principle of Example - Answers Will it help other Christians by its example? I Cor. 8:9
Principle of Evangelism - Answers Will it lead others to Christ?
, 1 Cor. 10:27-29
Principle of Emulation - Answers Would Jesus do it? 1 John 2:6
Principle of EXHALTATION - Answers Will it glorify God? 1 Cor. 10:31
Traditional Tolerance - Answers Tolerance is a word that applies to how we treat people we
disagree with, not how we treat ideas we think false.
New Tolerance - Answers It is based on the belief that "truth is relative to the community in
which a person participates. And since there are many human communities, there are
necessarily many different truths."
"Since truth is described by language, and all language is created by humans, all truth is created
by humans."
If all truth is created by humans, and all humans are "created equal," then all truth is equal.
Griswald vs. Connecticut - Answers Main ruling: Overturned a law which made counseling of
married persons in the use of contraception a crime.
Eisenstadt v. Baird - Answers Main Ruling: The law (Massachusetts) prohibiting singles from
receiving counseling or contraceptives from anyone other than a doctor/pharmacist in was
overturned
Roe v. Wade - Answers Main ruling - Lifted bans on abortion in all 50 states A woman's "right to
privacy" extends to her liberty to terminate an unwanted pregnancy.
Doe v. Bolton - Answers Main Ruling - Expanded definition of "health" of the mother to include
familial, financial, psychological, well-being, etc. as determined by her physician.
Planned Parenthood v Casey - 1992 - Answers Main ruling - Discarded 3 trimester of Roe and
focused on the "viability" of the fetus as the determining point where a state's interest in unborn
life begins.
Partial Birth Abortion Act - 2003 - Answers WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Bush signed the
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act (S. 3) into law on November 5, 2003, The bill represents the first
direct national restriction on any method of abortion since the Supreme Court legalized abortion
on demand in 1973.
